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I know more about funny than most people have in their little finger.
This section was radically pruned in July of 2011. Most of the junk is gone, but some of it I just didn't feel like carting away just yet. I was a long day and I had a lot of beer...but at least it's clean (mostly) and there's food in the fridge for tomorrow. I've got better stuff in storage...honestly...but let's unpack it tomorrow, okay? (Sincerest apologies to everyone who came to the painting party...Brad's a real asshole when he's drunk.)
...new stuff...
Reclaiming "the other N-Word"
A call to nerds everywhere: the abuse must diminish!
A satirical manifesto on behalf of the socially-challenged, and a challenge to "normies" to reconsider their testicles. Originally created for The Nervous Breakdown in early June of 2011, this piece wasn't just rejected...two days after my second request for an explanation, TNB removed all requests for freelance submissions from their site! (07/11)

How to Give the Ultimate Blowjob
A pre-Internet textfile classic
I couldn't resist posting this somewhere. A few years back, I was gifted with a "pirate" textfile that I expected to become legendary: a how-to handbook for giving the ultimate blowjob apparently written by a gay hacker and a couple of techgrrls. Does this really qualify as comedy? Read it and decide for yourself...I think it's hilarious! (circa. 1995)

...good stuff...
Rapid Composers' Consortium
...from concept to release in 24 hours
This is some of the funniest stuff I've done in years, and the closest I've ever come to the quality of my comedy idols, the Firesign Theatre. Some truly inspired comedy here, all of it done as part of an idea-to-mp3-in-24-hours challenge among some old friends. Not surprisingly, the second-worst of these pieces is also by far the most popular. (Try Googling What Is This? by Cub Lea and the Repressed Personalities...an awful mp3 which actually got campus airplay and has been sampled by at least two techno artists...and of course you've never heard of either of them and never will. Yeesh...John Dore never had to put up with this shit.) (07/05)
(D. G. 11/09: True, but Jon Dore has talent.)


The Geekspeak Lexicon
A dictionary of corporate and marketing buzzwords unlike any tech-tionary that you'll find on the web in that I made up most of these words and phrases myself, and I think it's rather good. It's both flattering and disturbing that at least 40 of the 150-odd terms which I invented for this project have actually come into popular use, none as a direct result of the Lexicon. Includes a link to Jargonizer, my sophistipated phrase randomizer and band-name generator, pulled from distribution in 2004 and just now reposted with source as donationware. (11/02)

Where's Gracie?
A script for a radio teleplay originally co-written by myself and a friend during the late summer of 1981, this still stands today, a full 30 years later, as a pretty reasonable piece of surrealist comedy. It was never completed to the point where it was publishable, which is probably for the best. My co-author went on to become a very wealthy investment advisor; I became something very much else. As you read, keep in mind that this pre-dates Airplane! by several years, Family Guy by at least fifteen years, and Robot Chicken by more than twenty. (08/81)
Demetri Martin, I'm coming for you...
The Expert Guide to ASCII Cocks B=====D))
The Expert Guide to ASCII Tits (o Y o)
Just reposted after five years offline
Remember IRC? It was texting before texting was cool <winkey>. Back in IRC's heyday, these pages were the definitive web guides to text-character rendering of every "prickley" and "titley" you were ever likely to need. With the texting revolution, these guides have become more relevant - and more necessary - than ever. Still one of the rofflemao-est riffs I've ever ritten, and deliberately not reformatted for mobile devices. (I never earned a penny in royalties for this work so you can carry a fuckin printout if it's that important to you...hell, I can't afford a cel plan let alone a Blackberry...) (07/11)


The Brain of a Trailer Park Genius  
You've seen what the software produces. Here's a peek at the hardware...literally, scans of my factory-issued personal brain from a CAT scan done in 2004. Seems I owe certain people an apology...I had no idea the colon could back up this far. (07/05)
...embarrassing stuff...

Since 1993, hobby farmers and psychic investigators on four continents have recommended this site more than any other for temporary relief of mild to moderate hesitancy and Internet-induced karma lag. cublea.net is also the first site recommended by the Single Men's Drug Council as an excellent source of irony and exorcise. (No, that isn't moonshine...it's a jartini. I may be trailer-park but I'm not common.)
The Big Stupid  
A downloadable compendium of classic early-Internet humor in WinHelp format. It's not bad, but my recent stuff is a lot better. Some people actually paid for this piece of crap. (04/96)

Arboretum TrueHit  
The full story and download link for the legendary lost Arboretum TrueHit DirectX audio plug-ins, the mysterious audio effects that make your music sound like your favorite drug feels. (07/05)

300 Classic Taglines
300 More Classic Taglines
300 More Classic Taglines
You might be surprised how many first-rate one-liners there are in this collection. Then again, maybe you can count past twenty. (Originally compiled 02/90)

"You Know It's Going to Be a Good Day When..."
These are all original, written back in the 1980s. You've heard most of these from other people, proving that it's often impossible to tell the difference between intellectual theft and great minds thinking alike. (04/96)

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Ah, lucidscream.com...I owned that site for exactly one year. Then the blog happened and my hit counts dropped from a whopping(!) 25 visitors per day at peak to an average of less than 50 per month in just a season...an object lesson for anyone else who thinks their opinion matters and their knowledge is worth sharing.
This panel was an actual adware dialog included in a freeware font browser distributed on Tucows and other major Windows archive sites circa. 1999/2000. Colleagues hailed it as a brilliant marketing ploy (at the time, this form of advertising was very rare), but we all know what eventually happened to "adware", don't we? This applet could have been a case study in why adware is a bad investment. And the domain? It's now owned by some Paris Tribue fan.
InterNIC, you were a cruel, cruel mistress...
The saddest part of this image is that at the time it was written, this ad copy was intended as a joke, not as an accurate description of the subject's fate.

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